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About Stephen Halbrook
- Stephen P.
- Halbrook (b.
- 12 September 1947.
- is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and an author and lawyer known for his litigation on behalf of the National Rifle Association.
- He has written extensively about the original meanings of the Second Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment (the latter as applied to Second Amendment rights).
- He has argued and won three cases before the US Supreme Court: Printz v.
- United States, United States v.
- Thompson-Center Arms Company, and Castillo v.
- United States.
- He has also written briefs in many other cases, including the Supreme Court cases Small v.
- United States (pertaining to the Gun Control Act of 1968) and McDonald v.
- Chicago.
- In District of Columbia v.
- Heller, he wrote a brief on behalf of the majority of both houses of Congress.
- He has written many books and articles on the topic of gun control, some of which have been cited in Supreme Court opinions (Heller, McDonald, Printz v.
- United States).
- He has testified before congress on multiple occasions.
- Halbrook's most popular book is That Every Man Be Armed, originally published in 1986.
- The book is an analysis of the legal history and original intent of the Second Amendment.
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